Environmental Communication

3 Credits

Explores the theory and practice of talking about the environment. Students will explore how environmental discourses construct and challenge our identities and relationships with other beings as part of multiple complex and interconnected systems. Topics covered include historical and contemporary rhetorics of environmentalism, scholarly thought on discourses of nature and culture, and efforts to relocate the "center" of environmental communication by privileging the perspectives and strategies of marginalized knowledges, practices, and voices.